A new leak of the upcoming Tecno Phantom V Fold 2 and Flip 2 show off the new designs of the value-priced foldables.
Techno offers decent value for money but they need to ramp on their software support part. For some cheap devices, you had be lucky to get a single major Android upgrade.
Are Tecno phones sold in your country or did you import one?
They are sold directly. They don’t have a very significant market share but they are still a player.
It’s cheap for a reason. Samsung’s equivalent smartphone are more going to be more expensive in comparison.
I think there can still be some balance between updates and price points. I had a Nokia (by HMD) that received two major Android upgrades whilst my Techno phone remained on Android 12 only.
No one is asking for 4 or 7 years of support from Techno but something like 2 Android upgrades is not too much to ask.
Yeah, I’m sure all that bloatware is really expensive.
Somehow I’m still surprised their target market can even afford 1000$ phones.
Aimed at emerging markets, Tecno has focused its business on the African, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Latin American, and Eastern European markets.
I wonder why won’t they expand their markets, even just for the flip/fold series?
Telecomms have a lot of regulation involved in expansion, markets like Europe have tight restrictions on frequencies and bandwidths utilised.
Expanding into a market, in such a saturated industry is expensive and risky.
